Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[Mike CHS]

I have family that use to live in Brighton, Michigan on Brighton Lake. They were paying over $10,000 a year in taxes but moved down to Florida when they retired.

Our taxes on a house in a subdivision in South Carolina was almost $3,000. I like our $641 a year but that is going to go up a small amount since we had them do a new assessment this winter because we had made so many improvements.

 

[NH homesteader]

Today I got my letter in the mail saying oh hey your taxes went up again, so here's your new monthly payment amount! taxes

@misfitmorgan are you guys still as snow covered as us? We have 6 inches or more everywhere... And mud too. Great fun!

 

[Bruce]

I have family that use to live in Brighton, Michigan on Brighton Lake. They were paying over $10,000 a year in taxes but moved down to Florida when they retired.

Our taxes on a house in a subdivision in South Carolina was almost $3,000. I like our $641 a year but that is going to go up a small amount since we had them do a new assessment this winter because we had made so many improvements.

You had them come out and reassess? They usually do that on their own if you had to get a permit.

 

[Mike CHS]

We don't need permits for anything here other than septic and new electric service. All they check is the meter hook up and you have to have one light working when they inspect.

There is such a small population around us that everyone knows everyone else. The assessor is known for being more favorable to land owners if they notify the County Clerk when major changes are made. If they have to work at it harder your assessment has a tendency to be higher.

Long story short about folks are here - We didn't have a mailbox on our road for almost the first two years that we owned the place. The only thing we were concerned about was our annual tax bill and we had that sent to South Carolina. We had an appliance fiasco with Sears over an appliance delivery and rather than give us a refund on our card they cut a check and sent it to the delivery address here in Tennessee.

Coincidentally we were at the Post Office in Cornersville about a week later to set up a P.O. Box so we could start routing things here. When we were filling out the paperwork the Post Master brought out an envelope (from Sears) that was marked undeliverable (no mail box) and said he was waiting to here that we were at the house so they could make it here to deliver what was obviously a check. They knew who we were and that we were part time even though we had never been in the Post Office.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I had to go looking for it, but I found the post I was looking for! I had read a post on my favorite pig site about how to tell if a gilt or sow is pregnant, here it is!

http://sugarmtnfarm.com/2011/08/28/pregnancy-indicator/

Thank you much @Baymule

OUCH! That will screw your credit rating big time. Don't know if there is a way to take it off the report quickly even if it was paid in full today. I ASSUME they keep a "no payments for 2 years" on your report a LONG time. You would want to explain that to any REA you talk to. Oh, and if you are going to "engage" an agent, get a broker, they have to work for YOU, REAs work for the seller even if you engaged them. At least that is how I think it works.

Thankfully they are not back to back and he has strong credit otherwise so score wise he isnt to bad it just looks bad. It is now paid up to date and we will make the next several months payments on time so it shows current for a few months and that should help at least as far as the bank would be concerned..i hope.

I have family that use to live in Brighton, Michigan on Brighton Lake. They were paying over $10,000 a year in taxes but moved down to Florida when they retired.

Our taxes on a house in a subdivision in South Carolina was almost $3,000. I like our $641 a year but that is going to go up a small amount since we had them do a new assessment this winter because we had made so many improvements.

Brighton is quite a ways downstate from me so they are charged more and being lake front makes it even more.

Today I got my letter in the mail saying oh hey your taxes went up again, so here's your new monthly payment amount! taxes

@misfitmorgan are you guys still as snow covered as us? We have 6 inches or more everywhere... And mud too. Great fun!

Nope we are done with snow and it has been warm for the past 2 weeks.....warm to us northern people anyhow daytime 30-40s

We never really got much snow this year, it was werid but im not upset about it!!

We don't need permits for anything here other than septic and new electric service. All they check is the meter hook up and you have to have one light working when they inspect.

There is such a small population around us that everyone knows everyone else. The assessor is known for being more favorable to land owners if they notify the County Clerk when major changes are made. If they have to work at it harder your assessment has a tendency to be higher.

Long story short about folks are here - We didn't have a mailbox on our road for almost the first two years that we owned the place. The only thing we were concerned about was our annual tax bill and we had that sent to South Carolina. We had an appliance fiasco with Sears over an appliance delivery and rather than give us a refund on our card they cut a check and sent it to the delivery address here in Tennessee.

Coincidentally we were at the Post Office in Cornersville about a week later to set up a P.O. Box so we could start routing things here. When we were filling out the paperwork the Post Master brought out an envelope (from Sears) that was marked undeliverable (no mail box) and said he was waiting to here that we were at the house so they could make it here to deliver what was obviously a check. They knew who we were and that we were part time even though we had never been in the Post Office.

Thats funny..and a lot like things around here but we are not quite that small. Everyone does know most everyone else locally though.

 

[NH homesteader]

Apparently I am due to get 6 inches Friday... A little jealous of your lack of snow! Lol!

 

[misfitmorgan]

Apparently I am due to get 6 inches Friday... A little jealous of your lack of snow! Lol!

i'm sorry kind of.....if it makes you feel any better we are suppose to get some snow tomorrow

 

[NH homesteader]

Yay lucky us!

 

[Bruce]

We don't need permits for anything here other than septic and new electric service. All they check is the meter hook up and you have to have one light working when they inspect.

There is such a small population around us that everyone knows everyone else. The assessor is known for being more favorable to land owners if they notify the County Clerk when major changes are made. If they have to work at it harder your assessment has a tendency to be higher.

Long story short about folks are here - We didn't have a mailbox on our road for almost the first two years that we owned the place. The only thing we were concerned about was our annual tax bill and we had that sent to South Carolina. We had an appliance fiasco with Sears over an appliance delivery and rather than give us a refund on our card they cut a check and sent it to the delivery address here in Tennessee.

Coincidentally we were at the Post Office in Cornersville about a week later to set up a P.O. Box so we could start routing things here. When we were filling out the paperwork the Post Master brought out an envelope (from Sears) that was marked undeliverable (no mail box) and said he was waiting to here that we were at the house so they could make it here to deliver what was obviously a check. They knew who we were and that we were part time even though we had never been in the Post Office.

Yep the SMALL post offices go the extra mile for their patrons. "Officially" they are supposed to return it after 3 days for NMR (No Mail Receptacle) but in the small offices the carrier and clerk knows where everyone lives, who is out of town, who is new, who's related to who so when there is an NMR and someone comes in, the clerk can say "Your Mom has a letter but the mailbox is down". For some reason that is quite common during the plowing and "losing control in the snow" season I bet if you hadn't gone to the PO to get the box, but the carrier saw your car at the house s/he would have come up to the house to find you and let you know that letter was being held.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I've decided that if i was going to have a sheep breed simply for how happy and giggly they made me feel whenever i saw them...i would have to get Valais Blacknose sheep, no question!!

I went with my mother to have a biopsy done last week and i found out last night the results came back as cancer, breast cancer to be precise. I have to go back to the doctor with my mom on the 11th so they can biopsy her lymph nodes to see if it has spread outside the tumor. The really upsetting part is my mom is only 56. So 2017 still sucks and seems it is only going to get worse.

In other news we went on Sunday and picked up some more pigs. We got two 230lb gilts, a 3 month old gilt and two 6 week old barrows. We only took the barrows because we got a good deal on them, all in all we got a good deal on all of the pigs.
Last year DH made a decision to pay $400 for a 275lb pig named Sarah, and then further decided to let in the guy we farm with and split her buy price to $200 each. So 1 pig $400.
So this time i looked for pigs and i made the decision on who we got. We ended up paying $590 for all 5 pigs. Personalities are excellent so far, all of the new pigs are friendly and calm.

The barrows will end up being sold as meat pigs at approx 145lbs each to a specific buyer who will pay $3/lb live weight for that size pig, which means the barrows will return approx $870 alone while only needing us to add about 100lbs to them. Win win for us.

The 3 month old gilt seems a bit lean so she got wormed, an iron shot, a vitamin b shot and is getting a bit of extra feed.

Our girls in the breeding pen are hopefully bred, we are still waiting to see if they cycle again or not. If they do not cycle Al the borrowed boar goes home, atm he is in a pen next to them. We are pretty sure at least 3 of the 4 are bred atm.